One of the most unexamined—and almost unmentioned—economic realities of post-gold standard America is the change in America's economic growth rate since the gold window closed in 1971. Does inflation change the rate of economic growth? The Federal Reserve Bank claims...
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Ukraine Asks Europe for More Weapons, Offers Gas to Curb Rising Prices
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Sep 5, 2022 | News
On Monday, Ukraine's Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal met with European leaders to request more weapons and suggest Kiev could help bring down gas prices. European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell pledged the bloc would continue to support Ukraine no matter what. ...
White House Considering Banning Nicaraguan Imports
by Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman | Aug 30, 2022 | News
Washington is undergoing discussions about cutting imports from Nicaragua, according to two unnamed sources that spoke with Voice of America, a US-government outlet. Analysts believe barring Nicaraguan imports will do serious damage to the Central American country’s...
How to End the Culture War
by Keith Knight | Aug 15, 2022 | Featured Articles
The following is a section from The Voluntaryist Handbook, organized by Keith Knight. There exist two blatant contradictions which roughly ninety-nine percent of intellectuals, journalists, and voters erroneously believe. On the one hand, they say that the free market...
The State is the Health of War
by Keith Knight | Jul 30, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/WnvtYw_QKQE Critics often dismiss private law by alleging that disputes between enforcement agencies would lead to combat — even though this happens between governments all the time! In truth, the incentives for peaceful resolution of disputes would...
COI #307: The Libertarian Solution to Police and Government Controlled Markets guest Keith Knight
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 28, 2022 | Conflicts of Interest
Keith Knight returns to COI to discuss his new book. Odysee Rumble Donate LBRY Credits bTTEiLoteVdMbLS7YqDVSZyjEY1eMgW7CP Donate Bitcoin 36PP4kT28jjUZcL44dXDonFwrVVDHntsrk Donate Bitcoin Cash Qp6gznu4xm97cj7j9vqepqxcfuctq2exvvqu7aamz6 Patreon Subscribe Star...
A Right-Wing Critique of the Police State – Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
by Keith Knight | Jul 22, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/7S19xsdp074 The next step in the development of what would later become anarcho-capitalism was the radical one taken by Gustave de Molinari, in his essay “The Private Production of Security.” Molinari asked if the production of defense services, which...
The Patent, an Enemy of Innovation
by Dakota Hensley | Jul 21, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
The foundation of our economy is the patent. If you invent something, you need a patent. We assume that without patent law, society would be stuck in an economic malaise. We'd be stuck in the Dark Ages. However, that isn't true. The opposite is. Patents hold our...
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Celebrate Juneteenth the Right Way
Today is Juneteenth. I celebrate the lethal electrocution of two communist spies on this day in 1953; Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, an American couple, were executed for their espionage service to Stalin and the USSR They became good communists on that...
The “Least Performing” Circus Continues at the US Navy (and Elsewhere)
***Have been out of pocket for conference attendance*** The US Navy and the Pentagon continue the grand sclerotic and arthritic three ring circus of staggering inabilities to deliver any exquisite platforms on time, on budget and within scope. The sterling track...
Be Careful What You Ask for
You wanted America First. You got it. Did you think it wouldn't be conceived in national collectivist terms? The clue's in the name. It's America First, not Americans First.
Phony Noninterventionists
Call me naive, but I increasingly suspect that much of today's "left" is not antiwar on principle. Rather, it's anti-American war because, in its view, America (not just the government) is rotten to the core: bourgeois, racist, patriarchal, heteronormative, blah,...
America First is Always the Sober Alternative to War on the World
My shortest post ever. Ironic that Israel has more US senators than America.
My Views
I discuss the news around deportations, the military parade, No Kings, and Iran v Israel. ALP
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